Okay, redoing the start of the war.
February 1914: In the wake of the Balkans Wars, the Greeks begin planning a campaign to conquer the Dardanelles and Smyrna.
March 1914: Incoming US President Woodrow Wilson refuses to recognise the Huerta dictatorship in Mexico. He imposes an arms embargo and begins providing support to Constitutionalist rebels under Venustiano Carranza.
April 1914: US troops occupy the Mexican port of Vera Cruz to prevent a German shipment of arms reaching President Huerta's forces.
July 1914: President Huerta of Mexico is overthrown and replaced by Carranza.
July 1914: With the Kulkis and Rasediya both complete, delivery is delayed due to uncertainty of the Ottoman and Greek positions in the event of war.
August 1914: The German battlecruiser Goeben and light cruiser Breslau flee the Mediterranean to Constantinople. While both ships remain under German control, they are technically transferred to the Ottomans.
August 1914: In response to the "transfer" of the Goeben to the Ottomans the British seize the battleship Rasediya. She will be incorporated into the RN as the Erin while her sister will enter service in 1915 as the Cmryu. This action causes outrage in Turkey.
August 1914: With the Ottomans clearly leaning toward to Central Powers, Pro-British Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos of Greece offers an alliance if the Ottomans enter the war. As a consequence of this, the Kulkis is released to Greece.
September 1914: The Belgians fall back to Antwerp where they are reinforced by three British divisions, including the newly formed Royal Navy Division.
October 1914: The Goeben bombards Sebastopol. The Entente declares war on the Ottomans.
October 1914: With the Ottoman entry into the war, the Greeks declare war and launch a surprise invasion of the Dardanelles at Gallipoli. Surprise allows the Greeks to gain a solid foothold, but the attack quickly bogs down as Ottoman reinforcements arrive.
November 1914: The Russians begin an offensive against the Ottomans in the Caucasus.
November 1914: Antwerp falls to the Germans. However the British and Belgians fall back along the coast, halting the German drive to the sea at the Battle of Ostend, leaving the port in Entente hands.
November 1914: With tensions between Mexico and the US at unprecedented levels over the continuing US occupation of Vera Cruz, Argentina, Brazil and Chile attempt to mediate to avoid war. Though the US will withdraw, the occupation will leave a lasting legacy of bitterness toward the US in Mexico.
December 1914: The Ottomans halt the initial Russian Caucasus offensive. Enver Pasha, one of the three pashas running the Ottoman Empire, orders an immediate counter offensivpe.
December 1914: Egypt is declared a formal protectorate after an Ottoman attempt to seize the Suez Canal is decisively defeated. The decision is made to launch an amphibious assault in February 1915 on Alexandretta to cut the Ottoman supply lines.